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Gladiator
Gladiator is one of the largest internet companies in the world, covering streaming services, shipping, online shopping and education UC2 E1·01:31:46. Signs around the closed Queens Center Mall announce its new shipping and fulfillment campus, billed as the largest in the world, with Gladiator dorms and a food court for employees UC2 E1·01:31:46. The signs say "Say hi, neighbor", and a payment card from a rewards program is shown that lets people move off cash and use Gladiator currency UC2 E1·01:31:46. Kingston says he and Liz watch shows on Gladiator Prime UC2 E1·01:56:40.
Gladiator is an enormous internet and shipping company that wants to build its campus on the site of the Queens Center Mall UC2 E1·01:31:46. Cody blames it for the mall's closing UC2 E2·01:16:18; JJ applied for a Gladiator internship and sent them his research, and his application was denied UC2 E6·01:23:12 UC2 E8·00:15:48. It has a float and delivery drones in the parade UC2 E7·00:20:02. David and Brennan show that Excelsior Dynamic Homes is owned by Gladiator, which has bought the mall and is building a Cipher Energy Fluid plant, and that Gladiator tried to buy out Tony's San Francisco property UC2 E8·00:17:51 UC2 E8·00:42:09 UC2 E8·00:16:44.
Kugrash says Gladiator is "very real", a company buying up property, and that Null is simply taking advantage of it UC2 E13·00:17:10. Brennan's recap describes Null manifesting in the world through Gladiator Industries UC2 E14·00:00:21 UC2 E16·00:01:00. A text tells Pete that Gladiator has finalized a purchase of Ellis Island and the museum UC2 E14·01:25:21, and in the Gramercy fight Esther crushes an arcane drive marked Gladiator Industries UC2 E17·01:04:49.
In the finale a warehouse worker's murder is covered up and the cover-up is exposed; a brick goes through the window of the Millennium Gladiator campus, Josh Mendoza leads a warehouse walkout, and Brennan says "The city turns against Gladiator in this moment" UC2 E18·00:53:09 UC2 E18·00:51:33. In the epilogue Gladiator retreats from the campus and does not go ahead with demolishing the Queens Center Mall UC2 E18·01:42:24.
By episode
UC2 E1: The Fall of New York City
UC2 E2: Heaven and Hell On Earth | The Unsleeping City Season 2 | Ep. 2
- Gladiator (from UC2_01) — Cody on Gladiator: "they just shut the whole mall down, and now Gladiator’s coming" — 01:16:18.
UC2 E4: We Need To Talk About Cody
UC2 E6: Collaborators
UC2 E7: Parade of Peril
UC2 E8: Feasts & Families
- Gladiator Industries (from UC2_01) — owns Excelsior Dynamic Homes; bought the mall, the Cloisters and the carousel; hires warehouse staff — 00:17:51, 01:37:36. David on Excelsior: "Is there something that's like a nonprofit, this is a weird relationship," a for-profit partnered with a nonprofit — 00:42:09.
UC2 E9: Fight at the Museum
- Gladiator Industries (from UC2_01) — 53\/3N hates it: "State collaborators, panopticon motherfuckers. I fucking hate them." — 00:19:06; Kingston's declaration of war echoes among New Yorkers — 00:19:48. 53\/3N also names Cypher (spelled "Cypher" here) — 00:19:48.
UC2 E10: Nulla Dies Umquam Memori Vos Eximet Aevo
- Gladiator (UC2_01) — Ricky and Sofia theorise it observes magic as a resource: "if Gladiator is observing magic not as magic but as something that's useful to them, that might be a form of disbelief." — 00:37:56; Iga: "Dreams have always been free, but if they can sell it, then you can monetize the dreams." — 00:38:44. Two new Gladiator billboards in Times Square — 01:37:56. Gladiator headquarters in Silicon Valley — 01:44:10.
UC2 E11: Let's Get Tiny
- Gladiator — "a couple more Gladiator signs" light up in Times Square in the dream — 01:04:54; Null's worshippers work at Gladiator-logo offices — 01:07:41.
UC2 E12: The Battle of the Hot Dog Cart
UC2 E13: Of Rats & Dragons
- Gladiator — a real company, "buying up property and, you know, destroying a lot of neighborhoods" (Kugrash) — 00:17:10; in Brennan's words "the Vox Phantasma of Null" — 00:21:25.
UC2 E14: History Checks and Lost Dex
- Gladiator — "Gladiator Industries" in Brennan's recap, "a massive conglomo-corp" — 00:00:21; JJ names "the Millennium Gladiator Campus" — 01:19:57; has bought Ellis Island and the museum — 01:25:21.
UC2 E15: For the Hoard
- Gladiator Industries — recap: bought the property (Ellis Island) — 00:00:21.